I've been a subscriber for a German cooking magazine for a few years now, but recently I'm kind of unsatisfied with it. I guess I'll cancel my subscription come next year, but of course I have several other magazines I'd like to try out.

Unfortunately all three of them are foreign, so I guess I'd have to subscribe to them to check them out, since I wouldn't know how to get them.

The three oh-so-tempting magazines are Donna Hay's magazine (http://www.donnahay.com.au/), BBC's Olive (http://secure2.subscribeonline.co.uk/bbcmagazines/subscription.cfm?mag=OLIV) and the French Régal (too lazy to look for the link now).

I'd be willing to subscribe to all three of them, although I think my husband will think I'm crazy if I do. I've checked a couple of international magazine stands, but never could find any of these, so I'm basically relying on "instincts" and helpful advice. I have no special reason why I chose those three, they just looked good and interesting enough, if you can judge a magazine by its cover.

I guess my question is: Do you know any of these magazines, and if you do, are they any good?

Of course I'd love to hear other suggestions to good cooking magazines. I can read German, English and French and I'd probably be able to decipher enough Dutch, so keep your ideas coming.

I don't know much about Leverkusen, but you could try the magazine store of your local train station. The bigger the town, the more foodie-mags can be found there. Today I spotted e.g. Olive and Food & Travel which I never thought of finding in this country. It might be as well helpful to ask the staff which magazines they use to order, because usually there is some time between the release date printed in the magazine and the actual date the mag will be delivered to german shops -- and it might happen that they've already sold the e.g. pre-ordered 3 mags shortly before you came in.

I have recently discovered Donna Hay's magazine here in Australia (I have been living under a rock) and I have found it really good- lots of simple but good recipes. I have also heard good things about Olive but having never found a copy here I am in no position to recommend it

Hay and Delicious [preferably Oz version but the UK one is fab too] are probably the best. bar none. full stop.

i don't know which German cookery mag you are subscribed to but i like many from there [.de/Germany], save for the kuchen and baking ones as i don't have a sweet tooth and don't touch the oven._________________live to eat, drink, and travel (to eat and drink, wellofcourse.)

I was given a subscription the Delicious for Christmas. I think Valli Little, the food Editor of OZ Delicious, is the new Donna. I have made many recipes from Delicious recently. My favourite, the Vanilla Braised Beef where I used lamb neck chops in place of beef cheeks._________________Barbara

I think Valli Little, the food Editor of OZ Delicious, is the new Donna.

I agree, Barbara. I borrowed her '5 of the best' book from the library and it has some great, easy ideas in it. The library aren't going to be too happy with me though- it has dollops of various ingredients all over it because I have been cooking lots of the recipes and I have never mastered the art of cooking/baking in a neat and tidy manner.

Found an issue of Donna Hay at the store this evening. Its appearance here is pretty random but this issue has a parsnip and brown butter soup with fennel seed scones on the cover. Unfortunately, our climate doesn't get cold enough for decent parsnips but, still, it looks delicious and there will be other things I'll be ready to try in a month or two.

I'll be trying the fennel scones since I'm just about reorganizing and replenishing all my spices. Happy timing! ;>_________________God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny. -- Garrison Keillor

so many food mags, so little time _________________"I've never accepted the external appearance of things as the whole truth. The world is much more elaborate than the nerves of our eye can tell us." - James Gleeson

Rainey, I made that soup- it was really good (especially the brown butter bit YUM).

I really suck at making scones but I made those ones with nigella seeds instead of fennel and they actually turned out really well. It's a great combination- I never thought of eating scones with soup before but now I'm wondering why not.